Yemeni posing as bedoun
Man held after 30 years
KUWAIT CITY, June 6: Personnel from the Central System for Remedying the Status of Illegal Residents (CSRSIR) have arrested a Yemeni who entered Kuwait more than three decades on a Yemeni passport but claimed he was a bedoun, reports AlRai daily. The daily added, in the man’s passport the profession is mentioned as ‘cook’ and under the sponsorship of a Kuwaiti and after hiding his nationality he managed to get work in the Ministry of Defence as a cook as a bedoun.
An informed source explained the Yemeni entered Kuwait in 1983 with his original passport, but after one year of employment with the Kuwaiti army as bedoun in 1986, he visited Saudi Arabia One of the suspects, a Sri Lankan, was arrested in Andalous area after a trap was set for him to emerge from his hiding place. He confessed to killing the woman and burning her corpse with the help of three other individuals eight days before her corpse was discovered. He revealed that two of his accomplices are of Pakistani nationality and the other is a Sri Lankan who works as a cleaning supervisor in Sabah Hospital, adding that one of the Pakistani suspects left Kuwait while the other was deported from Kuwait in March.
The suspect explained that he and the others used to have sexual relations with the victim. When she became pregnant, his Sri Lankan accomplice brought a medicine that will aid in miscarriage. However, they decided by then to kill the woman and therefore did not use the medicine. They murdered the woman in the house of one of the Pakistani suspects in Hasawi area after which they placed her corpse inside a vehicle and set it on fire in order to destroy all evidences. The suspect was referred to the concerned authorities for necessary legal action.
Cartons of imported liquor seized by the Customs Department. The liquor was
intended for sale on Eid-al-Fitr.
and somehow went to Yemen and got married to one of his relatives. After some time he managed to get his wife to Kuwait and documented his marriage as a bedoun and the couple has 11 children.
The source in 2006 said, one of his sons visited Yemen, married his cousin and returned to Kuwait on a Yemeni passport bearing a different name while another son got the Article 17 passport and went to Yemen for studies, and stayed there for two years. The source pointed out after tracking the data and the link of information received from various state agencies, CSRSIR men seized the bedoun and referred him to the competent authorities to take necessary legal action against him.
Liquor seized:
A Kuwaiti ex-convict was nabbed on his attempt to smuggle 2,800 bottles of imported liquor from a neighboring country on the first day of Ramadan. Security operatives attached to General Drug Control Department foiled the suspect’s plan to smuggle and hoard liquor for sale just before Eid Al-Fitr.
A security source said the Assistant Undersecretary for Criminal Security Affairs Major General Abdul-Hamid Al-Awadhi ordered the operation after the department was tipped-off about a container arriving at Shuwaikh Port on the eve of Ramadan, which they suspected the real content was concealed with electric cables.